conductor throughout Canada and the United States, notably working on a number occasions with the famous Goldman Band. He conducted a number of opera performances for theatres in St-Denis and Français in 1921. In 1920 he founded the Little Symphony of Montreal which he directed through 1931. From 1927 to 1929 he conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name). In the summer of 1933 he organized a special concert of un-published works by Calixa Lavallée at the Lafontaine Gardens upon the occasion of Lavallée's remains being moved from Boston to Montreal. The music presented was the result of Gagnier's unearthing of original scores by Lavallée held in private collections and libraries. In 1942 he founded the Gagnier Woodwind Quintet which consisted of four of his brothers and his son. He directed the ensemble until bad health forced him to resign in 1949. In the 1930s and 1940s Gagnier was active conducting for radio, beginning with a series of 26 concerts in 1931 with the Canadian Grenadier Guards Band for CBS Radio in the United States. From 1934 until his death in Montreal in 1949 he worked as the director of CBC Radio in Montreal and was an employee of CRBC. For them he not only coordinated and chose programs, but also served as a conductor for broadcasts of opera, orchestral, and band concerts. For the CBC he compiled the first catalogue of musical compositions by Canadian composers which was issued by the CBC in mimeograph in 1947. Gagnier was active as a teacher throughout his career, taking on a number of private students. He also was a faculty member at both Mont-St-Louis College and the Collège de Montréal from 1925 to 1930. He also was an instructor at the Conservatoire national de musique, the McGill University, and the Dominion College of Music. He himself earned a Doctor of Music from the Université de Montréal in 1934. He also gave numerous guest lectures and published several articles, essays, and poems; many of which appeared in Le Passe-Temps. References 1885 births 1949 deaths Canadian classical bassoonists Canadian composers Canadian male composers Male conductors (music) Canadian clarinetists Canadian classical pianists Conservatoire national de musique faculty McGill University faculty Canadian music educators Université de Montréal alumni Canadian male pianists 20th-century Canadian conductors (music) 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century Canadian male musicians Canadian military musicians